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Rock Legend Yoshiki First Japanese Artist to Have Handprint Immortalized in Cement at Hollywood’s TCL Chinese Theatre

Rock legend Yoshiki has become the first Japanese artist to be immortalized in cement at the TCL Chinese Theatre, ABC is reporting. The artist was chosen to be honored at the famed Hollywood landmark after he became one of the most influential musicians and composers in Japanese history; he has sold over 30 million albums…

Paramount’s ‘Paranormal Activity’ Being Adapted for West End Production

Paranormal, the Paramount horror movie series, is being adapted for a stage play in London’s West End, thanks to Simon Friend Entertainment. Friend, best known as the producer of Life of Pi on Broadway, has secured licensing rights for the adaptation, which will be scripted by Levi Holloway, who wrote Grey House also for Broadway….

Director Cord Jefferson’s Film, “American Fiction” Won the Top Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival

Director Cord Jefferson’s latest film, “American Fiction” garnered the top prize, People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.  Jefferson, who has been a writer on “Succession” and “Watchmen,” made his feature directorial debut with the movie and wrote the screenplay. It is based on Percival Everett’s 2001 novel, “Erasure.” MGM is releasing the…

Emery Kelly Rumored to Appear in the Second Season of ‘One Piece’ as Portgas D. Ace AKA “Ace”

The rumor mills are churning about who will play the role of Portgas D. Ace in the second season of One Piece. Netflix recently confirmed that the live-action saga will be returning for a second season, which will probably focus on happenings on Drum Island and Alabasta. The story recounts the adventures of Monkey D….

Lucasfilm Confirms that ‘Lando’ Is Headed to the Big Screen

Lucasfilm has confirmed that its Lando project is being turned into a film, according to Variety. It had originally been slated as a television series only. The project by Donald and Stephen Glover is based on the Star Wars character Lando Calrissian. On Thursday, Stephen Glover had declared on the podcast Pablo Torre Finds Out:…

RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop to Premiere October 2 on Icon

RoboCop fans are looking forward to a four-part documentary series about the creation of the iconic sci-fi thriller from the 1980s. Titled RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop, the series will premiere on the UK’s Icon Film Channel on October 2. A Blu-ray Collector’s Edition will be released on December 18, with a TVOD/EST version two…

Universal Plans Film Version of ‘Murder, She Wrote’

Universal Pictures is reportedly working on a Murder, She Wrote movie, based on the crime drama series that ran on CBS from 1984 to 1996. According to press reports, Amy Pascal will be producing the new film, with a script by Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo. The writers will not be doing any work…

Todd Haynes Says New Gay-Themed Film with Joaquin Phoenix Will Be Sexually Explicit

Director Todd Haynes is hinting that there’s going to be a heady dose of explicit sexuality in his upcoming gay-themed feature with Joaquin Phoenix. Interviewed by Variety at the Deauville American Film Festival, Haynes described the film as “a love story between two men set in the 30s that has explicit sexual content that ……

Brad Anderson to Direct Seventh Film in the ‘Living Dead’ Franchise

Shooting is expected to begin later this year on Twilight of the Dead, the “seventh and final installment” of the Living Dead franchise. Brad Anderson will be sitting in the director’s chair, says an exclusive story in the Hollywood Reporter. The screenplay for the new film is being written by a trio of scribes: Joe…

The 80th Venice Film Festival Awards-Full List- : Ryusuke Hamaguchi Won the Grand Jury Prize

A prestigious Italian film festival, the 80th Venice Film Festival handed out the Golden Lion to Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things.” The Greek filmmaker’s latest, which also stars Willem Dafoe and Mark Ruffalo, is based on Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel of the same name and follows Stone as Bella Baxter, a creation of the brilliant and…

‘The Boy and the Heron’ May Not Be Miyazaki’s Swan Song

@Hayao Miyazaki  “The Boy and the Heron” may not be Hayao Miyazaki’s swan song after all, suggests Junichi Nishioka, the vice president of Studio Ghibli. Miyazaki has already been pitching new ideas to his colleagues, according to Nishioka. The news came via an interview with Eli Glasner at the Toronto International Film Festival, where “The…